SCLG1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White Australia Policy, Nationstates
1 Aug 2019
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What is race: set of markers used to classify humans, system of classification of people/communities based on perceived biological characteristics. What is ethnicity: system of classification of people based on perceived cultural characteristics. Self identification: race or ethnicity can be based on a claim about a right to one"s own, race ethnicity is not static. Often based on ideas about tradition and continuity. External identification: long history of using ideas of race and ethnicity as a category of analysis in the sciences and social sciences, relation and hierarchical. How do nation-states manage difference: exclusion, assimilation, separation, multiculturalism. Exclusion: states excludes particular groups entry in order to try and achieve ethnic homogeneity, examples: white australia policy stop groups from entering, forced emigration- removes groups considered undesirable or different. Assimilation like the dominant group: encourage or force groups with different ethnicities to adopt or become, often based on claims of the superiority of dominant group"s laws, values, political system.
